OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 5:14

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14

In a total of three days, eighty thousand were destroyed, of which forty thousand were slain in close combat, and no fewer were sold into slavery than slain.

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Verse 14. Slain, or sold, the latter amounting to one-half of the 80,000.

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